Verse (Click for Chapter) Good News Translation These people had paid no attention to any warning, but relied instead on their magical powers. But when their first-born sons were killed, then they recognized that Israel was God's son. New Revised Standard Version Contemporary English Version New American Bible Douay-Rheims Bible Treasury of Scripture Knowledge For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God. Wisdom 18:11And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king. Wisdom 18:12 So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. Wisdom 18:14 For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Wisdom 18:15 Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction, Context Wisdom 18…12So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. 13For whereas they would not believe any thing before by reason of the enchantments, then first upon the destruction of the firstborn, they acknowledged the people to be of God. 14For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course,… Cross References Wisdom 18:11 And the servant suffered the same punishment as the master, and a common man suffered in like manner as the king. Wisdom 18:12 So all alike had innumerable dead, with one kind of death. Neither were the living sufficient to bury them: for in one moment the noblest offspring of them was destroyed. Wisdom 18:14 For while all things were in quiet silence, and the night was in the midst of her course, Wisdom 18:15 Thy Almighty word leaped down from heaven from thy royal throne, as a fierce conqueror into the midst of the land of destruction, |